The Ultimate Progressive Rock Top 50?

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 17:56

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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 15:50

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

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Well Paul you very effectively killed this thread.

Well, he started it so he can do whatever he wants with it.

I won't say, it's fair to start a thread with a certain OP and then give it a completely unexpected turn according to the OP. This pissed me off extraordinarily here, as I wouldn't post in this thread at all if I expected all the mega listing.

Edited by David_D - July 25 2025 at 21:32

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 12:01

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What?, no 5 stars for Civilian

I was being generous with my 3-star ratings for Gentle Giant, considering they're unlikely to make my own personal Top 100 Prog Bands list, although I have to admit, no prog list would be complete without Gentle Giant. For some reason, I suddenly have an urge to open a tin of sweetcorn.

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 11:53

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Can't wait for your Henry Cow review. You going to listen to all the albums completely?

No, I'm only planning to listen to and rate Henry Cow's first album - the same as I did with Echolyn, The Flower Kings and Grobschnitt - but don't hold your breath waiting for a good review.

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 11:47

Can't wait for your Henry Cow review. You going to listen to all the albums completely?

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 11:32

Saperlipopette! wrote:

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Well Paul you very effectively killed this thread.

Well, he started it so he can do whatever he wants with it.

I understand that it's worse to sabotage a discussion others have initiated with spamming, but I wasn't actually aware you could do whatever you want, including killing theads you've started? I don't see much point if any of Paul posts for the last two or three pages. I already know that he prefers most bands once they've moved past their prime, and that he rates albums that rubs him the wrong way, after having listened to them for a couple of minutes or so.

I can honestly say I've listened to nearly every album in full that I've rated here so far - which makes a nice change - and the album listings will come in handy for a suggested future series of Ultimate Prog Rock Top 50 polls, divided into five parts with ten albums per poll. I'm just trying to do my bit to keep PA's forums alive and kicking.

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 11:24

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Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Well Paul you very effectively killed this thread.

Well, he started it so he can do whatever he wants with it.

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 10:27

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 08:34

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Well Paul you very effectively killed this thread.

Well, he started it so he can do whatever he wants with it.

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 05:55

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19. GENTLE GIANT A prog band who emerged from the late-1960's outfit Simon Dupree and the Big Sound (although none of the band members were actually named Simon Dupree). Gentle Giant's 5-piece line-up consisted primarily of Derek and Ray Shulman, Gary Green, Kerry Minnear and John Weathers. Gentle Giant are known for their complex and sophisticated (read: uncommercial and unpopular) music, which was often challenging and unfathomable to listen to even by Progressive Rock standards, so, if you have a taste for complicated contrapuntal arrangements, dissonant instrumental voicings, complex vocal arrangements as well as unusual medieval instruments, than this is the band for you! As for me, I'm still Acquiring the Taste.

For some strange reason, Gentle Giant always reminds me of sweetcorn and the Green Cross Code Man - alias Darth Vader!

1970: Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbA_N2w-ZtmHKRmc_WJ8XYY
3 stars

1971: Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYjhFRoZxv7qw0T_cFKV6iB
3 stars

1972: Gentle Giant - Three Friends - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbFo0jpgGuuLmBmByHlHFeW
3 stars

1972: Gentle Giant - Octopus - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaPLWurSv773cL85d-hlcg9
2 stars

1973: Gentle Giant - In a Glass House - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaV390m7EtSGpHNZtooRRTo
3 stars

1974: Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEa66oCGXD2sGMl-v2fsQtb8
3 stars

1975: Gentle Giant - Free Hand - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEadO-WKXqwJ-xYAWssp68aF
2 stars

1976: Gentle Giant - Interview - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEa6qS8zBWpm9z1TMVSZkc73
3 stars

1977: Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool - The Official Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbopEP8hSpQyuOnxsnSmLUx
3 stars

1977: Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbNK_WrRnm0HfRNmMYJCn0L
3 stars

1978: Gentle Giant - Giant for a Day - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaI_Mqf9wzCeiu8D0hXkhJi
3 stars

1978: Gentle Giant - BBC Sight & Sound in Concert - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZ-Xd6RLfhHtLdCS_he3HQD
3 stars

1980: Gentle Giant - Civilian - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbdtwXoZY73FSdTo2_91tZU

What?, no 5 stars for Civilian

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 01:25

22. GRYPHON Gryphon are a London-based Prog-Folk band who are best-known for their unique blend of medieval and Renaissance Folk music, combining classical themes and proggy elements. They released five albums during the Progressive Rock decade of the 1970's:- "Gryphon" (1973); "Midnight Mushrumps" (1974); "Red Queen to Gryphon Three" (1974); "Raindance" (1975); & "Treason" (1977). The band reached something of a stalemate in the 1970's because they were never quite able to achieve commercial success, but they're now experiencing a well-deserved revival, thanks to the arrival of the Internet. Buoyed up by the renewed interest in the band, Gryphon released the aptly-titled comeback album "Reinvention" in 2018, their first album in over forty years.The chess-themed album we have here, "Red Queen to Gryphon Three", with its distinctive album cover, is probably the best-known of Gryphon's six albums. There are four movements in this instrumental Prog-Folk concept album based on the game of chess, so let's make the "Opening Move" now with the 10-minute-long opening piece of music.
Thrusting a pawn forward to the centre of the board with the bold "Opening Move", you could be forgiven for thinking this is YES when you hear the dynamic opening chord sequence. This is an energetic and adventurous keyboard piece which also features a bassoon. Imagine the grand symphonic sound of YES with a bassoon player included and that's the powerful piece of music you have here. There's also a gentle flutey middle passage to give the music a medieval banquet atmosphere, although this impression doesn't last for long, as the music slowly builds up into a crashing crescendo of sound for the dramatic finish when the slightly discordant chords reminds one of some of Van Der Graaf Generator's more experimental works. It's a powerful "Opening Move" to this musical game of chess with a striking "pawn storm" of sound in the centre of the board, designed to grab the listener's attention right from the outset.

Onto the second movement now with "Second Spasm", which opens in traditional medieval feast style with the sound of a crumhorn. You can almost picture Robin Hood and his Merry Men dining with Maid Marion at an exotic banquet with a lavishly-laid-out table. There's no time to dine on a feast though, as we're in full proggy mode just one minute into this 9-minute-long piece, when there's an outbreak of dynamic (and very modern) keyboards to spoil the medieval party atmosphere. The music returns briefly to the flutey medieval theme of a banquet hall, and then we hear the sound of a slow marching rhythm in which gallant knights might have marched into battle in old days of yore. The finale transforms into a powerful quick-march, which brings to mind intrepid medieval knights jostling and jousting on the battlefield to save a beautiful fair maiden's honour in time-honoured tradition.

Side Two opens with the third movement: "Lament". It's an 8-minute-long, three-piece-suite, opening to the harmonious sound of a bassoon and the crumhorn floating along on a gently melodic wave of sound. The acoustic guitar and rhythm section reminds one of the Prog-Rock band Renaissance, which seems somehow appropriate, as Gryphon's unique blend of musical styles is loosely based on the Renaissance music of the Middle Ages. In fact, this music wouldn't have seemed too out of place if it HAD been played in Henry VIII's time, although there would have been no power source to plug the modern electronic keyboard into. Putting that minor detail aside though, the middle section of the suite is a really laid-back mellow groove, but try not to get too laid-back as there's an uplifting and unrestrained grand finale to this Renaissance-style (in both senses) musical extravaganza. This is the kind of flutey folky Renaissance music you could picture yourself listening to at a medieval banquet attended by gallant knights and lusty wenches dining on a suckling pig, whilst being entertained by jolly jugglers and merry magicians, although you're more likely to hear this music played now at a 21st century medieval banquet revival night.

It's "Checkmate" now for the fourth and final movement on our chess-themed Prog-Folk album. This medieval style Prog-Folk instrumental will transport you back in time to the Renaissance court of Henry VIII where gay (in the old sense of the word) wandering minstrels and court jesters entertained the King. The music might have the fluty sound of Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, but it's actually the antiquated crumhorn and a recorder that gives the music a Renaissance feel to it. In modern times in England, this is the kind of jolly Folk music that Morris dancers might prance around to, looking slightly ludicrous wearing bell pads on their shins and waving sticks and handkerchiefs in the air, although to be honest, most sensible people in England would go out of their way to avoid Morris dancers. Anyway, back to the music at hand. The music's not TOO folky, because there's enough prog elements included here to keep the prog-heads entertained, including staccato stop-start changes of tempo and an outbreak of Rick Wakeman-style keyboard virtuosity for the sonorous grand finale to this 10-minute Prog-Folk epic.

If you're in the mood for some proggy Folk which conjures up images of gallant knights rescuing fair maidens in distress, then this might be just the album for you. Some of the music on this unique album might sound folky and medieval, but it's given a proggy 20th century upheaval.

1973: Gryphon - Gryphon - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m71Xvzp-76HtoxgbRa02k8CVvWC9EQpno
4 stars

1974: Gryphon - Midnight Mushrumps - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ktmayjpT8u6L-AxwghGBYvdx8NLuUI8S8
4 stars

1974: Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lgbwOrp3BUZ077ACpefFplxO0aWbZ2qEE
4 stars

1975: Gryphon - Raindance - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n0xwSuuOTmbhVYTdyjFlIcXCNPcD_ItYc
3 stars

1977: Gryphon - Treason - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHO1skWRiwU
3 stars

2018: Gryphon - Reinvention - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlydIQu-Cyk
3 stars

2020: Gryphon - Get Out of My Father's Car - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPmY3FoexjFHvjPPXOXnBE5LXUBk_Z_py

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Posted: July 25 2025 at 00:57

21. GROBSCHNITT The German word for rough cut tobacco. Grobschnitt may be virtually unknown outside of the progosphere and outside of their native Germany, but they're one of the most revered Symphonic Prog bands amongst their many fans, so for any naysayers, put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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Posted: July 24 2025 at 12:04

Well Paul you very effectively killed this thread.

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Posted: July 24 2025 at 10:10

20. GONG Gazeuse! Unravelling Gong's complicated discography of 57 varieties of album turned out to be almost as tricky as walking the high-wire at a Continental Circus. Gong have been in existence for over half a century now, so I thought it About Time we paid Tribute to a great band and Rejoiced together in their wonderful music. Gong breezed in like a Shamal wind with their debut album Magick Brother in 1970, but their real Breakthrough came three years later with the acclaimed Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy. Gong began as a band led by Aussie Daevid Allen, but they then had a Second Wind in the mid-1970's when Pierre Moerlen branched off to form his own jazzy version of Gong. A later third version of the band - known as Mother Gong - emerged in the late-70's, led by Wild Child Gilli Smyth. I don't want to create A Storm in a Teapot, but personally speaking, I wouldn't give a Flying Teapot for any of Mother Gong's albums, although I realise they have a strong following here at PA. Anyway, to cut a long story short, my favourite Gong album by far is Downwind - a precious album to treasure like an Angel's Egg, but I'll Leave It Open for You to decide which is your favourite Gong album.

The Gong Family Albums

3 stars

1970: Daevid Allen's Gong - Magick Brother - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA_xQv6oHwIUpm6O0YaJUrT
3 stars

1971: Daevid Allen's Gong - Camembert Electrique - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCPwOsH5kkDBkJzDVxf5lHa
4 stars

1972: Daevid Allen's Gong - Continental Circus (soundtrack) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDmGde7hOFRW315yc6rLOMM
3 stars

1973: Daevid Allen's Gong - Flying Teapot - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCkdxUoZ65KgEAxUk0AuSmC
3 stars

1973: Daevid Allen's Gong - Angel's Egg - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCPZ-35b9RZgaAcPp5SW2ga
4 stars

1973: Daevid Allen's Gong - Live at the Bataclan - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAQ_ArLxqTzKrsFluPVIl4z
3 stars

1974: Daevid Allen's Gong - You - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAgcgJztrOoWj1ujCdfTVZv
4 stars

1974: Daevid Allen's Gong - Live at Sheffield - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA-OaGx0F5F_t46dq71oRMh
4 stars

1975: Daevid Allen's Gong - Live in Sherwood Forest - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA1W1xYb31oFAcc1tIjrdmF
3 stars

1975: Shamal Gong - Shamal - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCkall70oCJKXfPG4mjdJ3K
3 stars

1976: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Gazeuse! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCZijlNll9ZUqIi4A2w7bzG
4 stars

1977: Daevid Allen's Gong - Gong Live, Etc - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDurkqIqqbu0GC6M_EkjW8i
4 stars

1977: Planet Gong - Live Floating Anarchy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCbMAuNSLQTxaQoMabLqDir
3 stars

1978: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Expresso II - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBlHQDu87X3XUHFOiVhxkq5
5 stars

1979: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Downwind - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzB4Aa4nRT4SkEZTCAK28ce_
4 stars

1979: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Time is the Key - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDKyY8Tj8kbtO3YxsJsPhjR
3 stars

1979: Mother Gong - Fairy Tales - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCbP5vtHK6iE1Bnt3-EjNtB
4 stars

1980: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDeWx1Q13uEBf0kXNea2f7a
2 stars

1980: New York Gong - About Time - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBybxE1JUqOSWAf3rzHq-0f
4 stars

1981: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Leave It Open - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBNk-N3NgZmKDlgg--pOnJt
2 stars

1981: Mother Gong - Robot Woman - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCikBuMHjMepmwI0WquoGNw
2 stars

1982: Mother Gong - Robot Woman 2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBELblhQ-tezORVJyRIsMMg
4 stars

1986: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Breakthrough - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAfRRLH8XIq-qV1gHzOVLVi
3 stars

1988: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Second Wind - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAdEC3MhYiLM8hVUUkymOB5
4 stars

1988: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Full Circle Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBzvSkHD6G6e9sB1ZPrzqZi
2 stars

1988: Mother Gong - Fish in the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAnQrgj4Z2629QY8Ts7ZAtA
3 stars

1989: Mother Gong & Daevid Allen - The Owl and the Tree - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAL1lk9yo7Ors_FzStGDBru
3 stars

1989: Gong Maison - Gongmaison - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDU1ezrNv4wkj2GIFA3_BuW
3 stars

1990: Daevid Allen's Gong - Access All Areas - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCSNtBDb_QyH7FXPsQhCH3W
3 stars

1991: Mother Gong - Wild Child - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBlzpSqG9THdQ_MB5ucJRT0
2 stars

1992: Mother Gong - Live 1991 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAPEj6G1QKjdNtyGVE6nWNI
3 stars

1992: Daevid Allen's Gong - Shapeshifter - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzC7ZPzHe0mKlQVGKKqb3J3V
3 stars

1993: Mother Gong - She Made the World Magenta - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBveJKRmYMEiwHebztPECm_
3 stars

1994: Mother Gong - Eye - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzB-QxbA_Ula3upQ1ouSR4UQ
3 stars

1994: Mother Gong - Tree in Fish - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBGoK_Ztpx6wW-IF7TbQLiX
3 stars

1995: Daevid Allen's Gong - The Peel Sessions 1971/74 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDve5EqZopWjRN6xkNk5mQw
4 stars

1995: Daevid Allen's Gong - 25th Birthday Party, The Forum, London - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzD3NyonOAlKX7mw-aSLqiS8
4 stars

1995: Gongzilla - Suffer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEeqz9tYuBw
3 stars

1996: Gongzilla - Thrive - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KgKI8nxPq0
3 stars

1998: Mother Gong - The Best of Mother Gong - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAlvopTk5gUKKpwZ3yDjZ9E
4 stars

2000: Daevid Allen's Gong - Zero to Infinity - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA1FjocEST5bajlpDqr717m
4 stars

2000: Daevid Allen's Gong - Live to Infinitea - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDB9QH-WEgZ6XzM5uueCG18
3 stars

2000: Daevid Allen's Gong - High Above the Subterranea Club - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzC_CC5nlAh5Ii9dD9o01a3v
4 stars

2003: Gong - The World of Daevid Allen & Gong, Vol. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCbDB0MDnW3iSCxJZGlJIq6
4 stars

2003: Gong - The World of Daevid Allen & Gong, Vol. 2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBP3ewL2klIa5mwSmM2rSmJ
4 stars

2003: Gong - The World of Daevid Allen & Gong, Vol. 3 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzABxi58AIvRr2pjiSxXqqYw
3 stars

2003: Gongzilla - East Village Sessions
3 stars

2004: Daevid Allen's Gong - Magick Invocations. Vol. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCmPThqF_L6167WLAwk1FAd
3 stars

2004: Daevid Allen's Gong - Magick Invocations, Vol. 2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBV5EbBogrMzYGjfVqVPzw2
2 stars

2004: Acid Mothers Gong - Acid Motherhood - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzAEfa3R3V4d_wUfLIqGgGrp
4 stars

2004: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Pentanine - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzC0VyMDJWvFVelgJ4u6ScBd
3 stars

2004: Gong Matrices & Gilli Smyth - Parade - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nz_Z6w6FZzJf_wS6d8Ho--c5q2y7hII8w
3 stars

2005: Mother Gong - Glastonbury Festival 1979-1981 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA14vnBGVYHLb7-Cm5zxQ0u
2 stars

2006: Mother Gong - Mother Gong 2006 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzB4ndJrO6fbUuJdP7JH-A5w
2 stars

2007: Mother Gong - Live in Amsterdam - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCYNQTuH8NSlv-lvq61eTDs
3 stars

2008: Gongzilla - Five Even
3 stars

2009: Daevid Allen's Gong - 2032 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDsLCfWlR44zX3d7JbFvruE
4 stars

2010: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Tribute - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA9kvMvM1rgmSeJ_JnKumnF
4 stars

2013: Daevid Allen's Gong - A Storm in a Teapot - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBMED_qzmjcEGeX53toqqa1
3 stars

2014: Daevid Allen's Gong - I See You - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBoipvAMRbNO2zHhbMSTL9u
3 stars

2016: Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzA6DSORKqZlLW8J14y5_WGQ
3 stars

2018: Gong Expresso - Decadence - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m0DKWPEV9g9x3s-fFORE6v6vhwCiUmF5U
3 stars

2019: Gong - The Universe Also Collapses - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzDVoprYkTbtxPHPvPvwdRI5
4 stars

2023: Gong - Unending Ascending - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mA7TRk7vVBFZat5tMioV8YuhFqvO7_dtY

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19. GENTLE GIANT A prog band who emerged from the late-1960's outfit Simon Dupree and the Big Sound (although none of the band members were actually named Simon Dupree). Gentle Giant's 5-piece line-up consisted primarily of Derek and Ray Shulman, Gary Green, Kerry Minnear and John Weathers. Gentle Giant are known for their complex and sophisticated (read: uncommercial and unpopular) music, which was often challenging and unfathomable to listen to even by Progressive Rock standards, so, if you have a taste for complicated contrapuntal arrangements, dissonant instrumental voicings, complex vocal arrangements as well as unusual medieval instruments, than this is the band for you! As for me, I'm still Acquiring the Taste.

For some strange reason, Gentle Giant always reminds me of sweetcorn and the Green Cross Code Man - alias Darth Vader!

1970: Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbA_N2w-ZtmHKRmc_WJ8XYY
3 stars

1971: Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYjhFRoZxv7qw0T_cFKV6iB
3 stars

1972: Gentle Giant - Three Friends - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbFo0jpgGuuLmBmByHlHFeW
3 stars

1972: Gentle Giant - Octopus - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaPLWurSv773cL85d-hlcg9
2 stars

1973: Gentle Giant - In a Glass House - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaV390m7EtSGpHNZtooRRTo
3 stars

1974: Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEa66oCGXD2sGMl-v2fsQtb8
3 stars

1975: Gentle Giant - Free Hand - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEadO-WKXqwJ-xYAWssp68aF
2 stars

1976: Gentle Giant - Interview - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEa6qS8zBWpm9z1TMVSZkc73
3 stars

1977: Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool - The Official Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbopEP8hSpQyuOnxsnSmLUx
3 stars

1977: Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbNK_WrRnm0HfRNmMYJCn0L
3 stars

1978: Gentle Giant - Giant for a Day - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaI_Mqf9wzCeiu8D0hXkhJi
3 stars

1978: Gentle Giant - BBC Sight & Sound in Concert - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZ-Xd6RLfhHtLdCS_he3HQD
3 stars

1980: Gentle Giant - Civilian - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbdtwXoZY73FSdTo2_91tZU

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18. GENESIS In the Beginning there were five members of Charterhouse School who One Day decided to form a band. That band was GENESIS. They were Looking for Someone to promote and produce their first album when a Window of opportunity came along in the shape of Jonathan King, a Duke of record producers working Behind the Lines at the time. The album "From Genesis to Revelation" entered a Land of Confusion and Misunderstanding though when many record stores placed the album in their religious music sections due to the religious-sounding title. The album and first single "Silent Sun" both flopped, and barely caused any Ripples in the music press either, despite Jonathan King Calling All Stations to try and promote the album and single on the radio. GENESIS' second single "A Winter's Tale" was also met with about as much indifference as A Fly on a Windshield by radio stations and barely No Reply at All from the music press. Their record company Decca became Entangled in a dispute when it was discovered there was another band in America called GENESIS, but by A Trick of the Tail, the band managed to keep their name Anyway by changing their name to "Revelation" in the United States.

The music business has always been as fickle as a Harlequin, where The Dividing Line between success and failure depends on a combination of good luck and hard work. Every new band is sailing through Uncertain Weather where they can easily be dragged down by the Undertow and Shipwrecked by having The Knife stuck into them by their record company or by the music press. That's All it takes to finish a band's career. There's Never a Time when it's been easy to make it in the tough music business, but Like It or Not, that's just the Way of the World. No astrological Watcher of the Skies can predict who's going to make it in today's cynical music industry, where the chances of success are about as hard as climbing a White Mountain of snow before the Fading Lights of Dusk close in.

After the Ordeal of seeing the commercial failure of their first album, GENESIS were In Limbo and left out In the Wilderness during a short period of Stagnation when the band members returned to their studies at Charterhouse. They weren't Down and Out or Taking It All Too Hard though, because making great music was far more than Just a Job to Do for the five talented band members. Contrary to being In Hiding, GENESIS were just Counting Out Time in The Waiting Room of The Cinema Show of life before returning to the recording studio. The band members were confident of The Musical Box of talent they had between them and their Horizons were positively bright with the general feeling that It's Gonna Get Better soon. GENESIS were working to a Time Table and they didn't plan on Living Forever on borrowed time, or waiting around each day until Supper's Ready. They were In Too Deep to consider Throwing It All Away at this late stage. The band were more than ready to Turn It On Again with an Invisible Touch of magic with the release of their next album, "Trespass". It would be several albums later though before GENESIS were basking in the warm Afterglow of a successful album release, followed by the Domino effect of success breeding further success in the proverbial Aisle of Plenty.

4 stars

1969: Genesis - From Genesis to Revelation - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ls8TsNNijJYxxnS-Kp5ts8t
5 stars

1970: Genesis - Trespass - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuZha0g4IGPuYTYa2ojNJ5a
5 stars

1971: Genesis - Nursery Cryme - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvvRA8-vhtqeavlv9_TYkI9
5 stars

1972: Genesis - Foxtrot - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LutOVRL4O2LYbAaPtNQjtzt
5 stars

1973: Genesis - Genesis Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lus98yp-GOfBWcQfVmPP6L1
5 stars

1973: Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ls8c3SxGZW2wPNWTifikotc
4 stars

1974: Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvZRqTE0R8CKQn3uj02Eete
5 stars

1975: Genesis - The Lamb Comes Alive - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuIqt0pO-maT_M-6HEl4Z74
5 stars

1976: Genesis - A Trick of the Tail - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuNpwmZ8GoikYtQy7QBk7n9
5 stars

1976: Genesis - Wind & Wuthering - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtklfWs1Vn7vBe5S3-akc7A
5 stars

1977: Genesis - In Concert - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lv9vwzg9cHapUHoredylq7a
5 stars

1977: Genesis - Seconds Out - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lvo8voJt2dgX8_fMbtSeK2_
4 stars

1978: Genesis - And Then There Were Three - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu_v2KJ4Drut19mv5NA5Vbb
3 stars

1980: Genesis - Duke - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuhvokGgqGhqePfy2PSVC0e
4 stars

1980: Genesis - Duke's Tour - Live in London - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsakRPFG5xzS9M1Bt6ZUIsf
3 stars

1981: Genesis - Abacab - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LualU3IIHUGJWlepYRMzkfk
4 stars

1982: Genesis - Three Sides Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltg7GbpNLEDWhkCYaKHjuwI
3 stars

1983: Genesis - Genesis - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsV-Ocua4iC4rU9TaLcLMS8
3 stars

1984: Genesis - The Mama Tour - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuYkoE3hmwPDXrzniIygwJL
3 stars

1986: Genesis - Invisible Touch - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LueLtgXMm4tJJVvTRrDpy6E
4 stars

1987: Genesis - The Invisible Touch Tour - Live at Wembley Stadium - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtfP3gvjZFp8aRa4u4N4naZ
2 stars

1991: Genesis - We Can't Dance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGPiIqszhWw
3 stars

1992: Genesis - The Way We Walk, Volume 1: The Shorts - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtiJfPLwHyqHvA89AJ-6XAJ
3 stars

1993: Genesis - The Way We Walk, Volume 2: The Longs - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvqCgkdpSIQIR_Td5siylSk
3 stars

1997: Genesis - Calling All Stations - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvGUqnvmEO9Kxq-tjOJ-TcX
3 stars

1998: Genesis - Live in Katowice, Poland - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lsay_xIB0GrhENO4VCbYT_x
4 stars

2007: Genesis - When in Rome - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt2rNoVqigp6jGiy_u9Jw06

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17. PETER GABRIEL Proving that you don't need a sledgehammer to break a nut, but you do need a Sledgehammer to make one of the greatest pop videos of all time. At Face Value, Peter Gabriel is a better singer than Phil Collins, and while Phil was busy singing Sussudio, Peter Gabriel was in the studio carving out a successful career as a solo artist, unlike his early years of financial hardship with Genesis, which is surely Against All Odds. Peter Gabriel is one of only three solo artists (alongside Mike Oldfield & Rick Wakeman) who's earned a well-deserved place in the Ultimate Prog Rock Top 50 on his own merit.

1977: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 1 (Car) - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnA2ygZ8JyTvUbXZuDHoHwhiqmm3Npq3g
3 stars

1978: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 2 (Scratch) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZBGJUuzuxTSOFIlTCF7z9u
3 stars

1978: Peter Gabriel - Live at Rockpalast - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEY47wSeLfK4FjV6HHrJb_Rz
3 stars

1980: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbRu6xBw8fY3Xat1KbZdqJw
3 stars

1982: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 4 (Security) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYTOF74bbT2RwZwQUf5jqpf
3 stars

1983: Peter Gabriel - Plays Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZtPvRL06CgSxaVkI2-yk0x
3 stars

1985: Peter Gabriel - Birdy (soundtrack) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaC204apixnqNolE6Fy9UwZ
4 stars

1986: Peter Gabriel - So - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZ0AbdT4Z2g-vhT8LX6j1wh
4 stars

1987: Peter Gabriel - Live in Athens - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZLiP55uBKZbpCpviU9u3FF
4 stars

1989: Peter Gabriel - Passion (soundtrack) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYfGmIinkpf7Ivicuuu69PS
4 stars

1992: Peter Gabriel - Us - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaMx9XDN5qpF7BtGB18cn0s
4 stars

1994: Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbYyz8vRl91l-zc2jyLWsMY
3 stars

2000: Peter Gabriel - OVO (soundtrack) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbwGlliB7hnlc3Y_pN5YwGn
4 stars

2002: Peter Gabriel - Long Walk Home (soundtrack) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbR-0E9H7iVnTgLf-vg3S9c
4 stars

2002: Peter Gabriel - Up - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYBF6PBdXDs_tBbPg44Q0WX
3 stars

2008: Peter Gabriel with Various Artists - Big Blue Ball - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYOXfbfTgoqsfQgNiOR4bkb
3 stars

2010: Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYH2_XR6Qf9606B9wV3v-6n
3 stars

2011: Peter Gabriel - New Blood - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaoKVprRCzhAnTWeBY6nU_E
3 stars

2014: Peter Gabriel - Back to Front: Live in London - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZAC5ffYCkPrCtGhGR5MnB6
3 stars

2019: Peter Gabriel - Growing Up Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEa4A5uBB8IeRuiQxhjhnqW2
2023: Peter Gabriel - I/O - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kF5AEWkJMGrkLR53iUYrLRZhapUndd0rQ

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16. FOCUS Time now to Focus attention on the combined talents of Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer as we set sail on the Ship of Memories for a voyage of discovery across the Moving Waves of Dutch Prog where, just Beyond the Horizon, you'll hopefully discover some magnificent Golden Oldies along the way. Yes, it's none other than the mother of all Dutch prog bands, or simply just, Mother Focus. Altogether now, "Joladadijoladadi-jo-o-ooh."

1970: Focus - In and Out of Focus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o34Hftlard4
5 stars

1971: Focus - Moving Waves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCBMPdqDAS0
4 stars

1972: Focus - Focus 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfuSi2Un_ng
4 stars

1973: Focus - Live at the Rainbow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mmcuSI99sNs9poiX4tIFzGGhCsTQkpsuo
5 stars

1974: Focus - Hamburger Concerto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl8RbU1hXuQ
4 stars

1975: Focus - Mother Focus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_L2pyAqDBg&t=1946s
4 stars

1976: Focus - Ship of Memories - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mF05MUeQF0jgcCtqICpxi-tPO1LJSnPzY
4 stars

1977: Focus - Focus con Proby - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC8ao1-JpsqMhvAr7jZMWOBd96duBh3Ot
3 stars

1985: Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer - Focus - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC8ao1-JpsqNhBg7mEYbc5TraqAOO4o-P
4 stars

2002: Focus - Focus 8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvIr9PblntI
4 stars

2006: Focus - Focus 9 / New Skin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GObrMhsmqYg
4 stars

2012: Focus - Focus X - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kuWjUdtNK8kLnPT-HfMQ5xFUfieoXBvHg
5 stars

2014: Focus - Golden Oldies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuGrGFkNxGM
4 stars

2016: Focus & Friends - Focus 8.5 / Beyond the Horizon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llmzo08kuLBSxn4ZDWKXQ3x66Ppy1PAOw
4 stars

2017: Focus - The Focus Family Album - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD3mRTKBTkySigAnBbvjqhqm8AVOk6mcx
4 stars

2018: Focus - Focus 11 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k919voWhc7cQJA-ptHR8NhPIUBpNvR1JE
4 stars

2021: Focus - Focus 50: Live in Rio / Completely Focused - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l72j_QYARhHUH1yUz4OaidXvMC6G1WPOo
4 stars

2024: Focus - Focus 12 - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo-frS8al_SUESu1BKnvHLZ0OdfD1Io3p

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15. THE FLOWER KINGS A Swedish Progressive Rock band who began life as a backing group for Roine Stolt's solo "Flower King" album, but then blossomed into a fully-fledged band in their own right. The Flower Kings have more roots, offshoots and branches than a herbaceous border full of rhododendron bushes, including Roine Stolt's and Tomas Bodin's many solo works, and associated groups:- Agents of Mercy; Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion; Kaipa; Karmakanic; Midnight Sun; Moon Safari; Spellbound; Spin Gallery; The Tangent; Time Requiem; Transatlantic, and many other one-album band projects too numerous to mention. The list goes on...

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